Our good friends at Google run a daily puzzle challenge and asked us to help get them out to the geeky masses. Each day’s puzzle will task your googling skills a little more, leading you to Google mastery. Each morning at 12:01 a.m. Eastern time you’ll see a new puzzle, and the previous day’s answer (in invisitext) posted here.
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SPOILER WARNING:
As a test, we’re going to leave the comments on so people can work together to find the answer. As such, if you want to figure it out all by yourself, DON’T READ THE COMMENTS!
Also, with the knowledge that because others may publish their answers before you do, if you want to be able to search for information without accidentally seeing the answer somewhere, you can use the Google-a-Day site’s search tool, which will automatically filter out published answers, to give you a spoiler-free experience.
And now, without further ado, we give you…
TODAY’S PUZZLE:
In the only nation whose flag is a double pennant, polo is played differently than you’d expect. What do the players do?
YESTERDAY’S ANSWER (mouseover to see):
Search [Mesozoic Era] to find that it’s divided into three time periods: Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous. Search for each dinosaur to learn that the stegosaurus lived during the Jurassic Era (roughly 155 million years ago), but the triceratops and tyrannosaurus lived together during the Cretaceous period of the Triassic era (roughly 68 million years ago).
